Narrative Approaches in Play With Children by Ann Cattanach

Narrative Approaches in Play With Children by Ann Cattanach

By Ann Cattanach

Narrative play is a fashion of speaking with youngsters utilizing resourceful tales and narratives to proportion and make experience of lifestyles occasions. This booklet describes utilizing narrative play therapeutically with teenagers who've lived in a number of households, young children who've issues of social figuring out and kids who've studying difficulties.Ann Cattanach explains how kid's tales and narratives, whether or not they are approximately actual or imagined occasions, may be interpreted as signs in their studies, their principles, and a measurement of who they're. She demonstrates this with examples of kid's tales from her medical adventure, and gives narrative play concepts and pattern scripts either for therapists and for folks whose situations require a healing parenting approach.This e-book is vital interpreting for play therapists, social employees and different pros operating with kids, in addition to mom and dad and carers of youngsters who're experiencing social and/or studying problems.

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Play as a cultural routine The way the adult negotiates playing with the child is crucial to the co-working of the interaction. If the structure is clear, the play becomes another cultural routine, which gives the child a sense of belonging, creating a place where the child has a role and responsibilities. Corsaro (1997) describes a cultural routine as a place where the child has the security and shared understanding of belonging to a social group. Because the routine is predictable this provides a framework within which a wide range of sociocultural knowledge can be produced, displayed and interpreted.

Characteristics of play Johnson, Christie and Yawkey (1999) describe five characteristics of play that help us understand the process. 42 NARRATIVE APPROACHES IN PLAY WITH CHILDREN 1. The play frame – This separates play from everyday experience. Within the play frame the internal reality of ‘playing’ takes precedence over external reality. 2. Play motivation – This is an intrinsic characteristic originating in the individual; activities are pursued for their own sake. 3. The importance of process over product – Children’s attention during play focuses on the activity itself, rather than the goals of the activity.

Troubled’ and ‘troublesome’ children can become the responsibility of the state by entering the care system. A Social Services Inspectorate Report, When Leaving Home is also Leaving Care (1997), quoted the following UK statistics: · More than 75 per cent of care leavers have no academic qualifications of any kind. · More than 50 per cent of young people leaving care after the age of 16 are unemployed. · Seventeen per cent of young women leaving care are pregnant or already mothers. · Twenty-three per cent of adult prisoners and 38 per cent of young prisoners have been in care.

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